{171} A copy of Pickersgill's portrait of Crabbe. {172} Dryburgh. {173} Dryburgh. {174} See the Chronicle of the Drum. {184} Chapter IV. {187} Tales of the Hall. Book X. (vol. vi. p. 246). {188a} Carlyle's niece, now Mrs. Alexander Carlyle. {188b} To his nephew Tom, meaning that he should outlive him. Letter of Jeremiah Markland (Bowyer's Miscellaneous Tracts, ed. Nichols, p. 521). {189} That his boat was intentionally run down by a felucca. {193} Among my Books. First series. {196} June 10, 1876, was a Saturday. Perhaps the letter was finished on Sunday. {197} In 1851. Wordsworth's Letters are in the second volume, pp. 145- 173. {198} Boswell's Johnson, VIII. 183. {199} Haydon's Memoirs, III. 199. {200} Archdeacon Groome, Rector of Monk Soham, Suffolk. {202} Suffolk for 'donkey.' {206} The Song of Brunanburh by Hallam Tennyson. Contemporary Review, Nov. 1876. {208} In 1863 he wrote to George Crabbe,-- 'I am now reading Clarissa Harlowe, for about the fifth time: I dare say you wouldn't have patience to read it once: indeed the first time is the most trying. It is a very wonderful, and quite original, and unique, Book: but almost intolerable from its Length and Sentimentality.' {213} See p. 207. {217} In Crabbe's Borough. {219a} _Essais_, i. 18. {219b} Lucr. iv. 76-80. {220a} Formerly Professor of Sanskrit in King's College, London. {220b} On English Adjectives in -able, with special reference to reliable, 1877. {224} The Hon. J. R. Lowell, formerly United States Minister at the Courts of Madrid and St. James'. {231} Chap. xlv. {234} Melanges et Lettres. {237} Memorials of Charlotte Williams-Wynn, p. 59. {238} Criticisms, and Elucidations of Catullus, by H. A. J. Munro. {239} Of Lamb's Life, mentioned in the following letter. {240a} Book II. Song 2. {240b} Endymion, i. 26, etc. {240c} FitzGerald's memory was at fault here. The lines are from Tennyson's Gardener's Daughter. {242} Charles Lamb. A calendar of his life in four pages. {243} That to Bernard Barton about Mitford's vases, December 1, 1824. {247} A calendar of Charles Lamb's Life. {251} Not in the Essays but in the Colours of Good and Evil, 4: 'For as he sayth well, _Not to resolve is to resolve_.' {252} See Lamb's Verses to Ayrton (Letters, ed. Ainger, II. 2). {253} The Only Darter, A Suffolk Clergyman's Reminiscence. Written in the Suffolk Dialect by Archdeacon Groome under the name of John Dutfen. {254} Wesley's Journal, 30 May 1786, and 22 May 1788. {255a} Edwin Edwards. {255b} Lowestoft. {256a} These two lines are crossed out. {256b} Tales of the Hall, Book XI. vol. vi., p. 284, quoted from memory. {259a} This was never finished. {259b} Lord Carnarvon. {267} Tales of the Hall, Book X. {270} A year before, FitzGerald wrote to Professor Cowell: